Ecology

How do algorithms decide what to recommend to us and know what we like

How do algorithms decide what to recommend to us and know what we like

We are constantly surrounded by digital suggestions: every time we access a streaming platform or visit a e-commercesome algorithm based onartificial intelligence is working for us to curate the selection of content we find in front of us, be it digital content, products to purchase, and so on. This system, technically defined recommendation engineis based on the analysis of big ...

We unboxed Geopop games, which make science fun for everyone

We unboxed Geopop games, which make science fun for everyone

Geopop was born with a simple idea: make science pop, fun, accessible and understandable for everyone, without age or skill barriers. The best way to learn science is by having fun, and it is precisely for this reason that we came to collaborate with Clementoniwhich has always been a symbol of educational games: together we have transformed our contents into ...

Italy in space: interview with Minister Adolfo Urso at the ESA Ministerial

Italy in space: interview with Minister Adolfo Urso at the ESA Ministerial

Al Ministerial Council ESA 2025 in Bremen, Germany, a budget of 22.1 billion euros to the European Space Agency for the next few years, divided between the various member countries and some allied countries. The Ministerial marks the beginning of a three-year period under Italian leadership of ESA, which will end with the next Council in our country in 2028. ...

How to understand when land turtles hibernate: how it works and what to do

How to understand when land turtles hibernate: how it works and what to do

Who has one turtle in the garden, he hasn’t seen her around for some time because in the month of November she went in hibernationor almost. With the arrival of the winter season in our latitudes not only turtles, but in general all reptiles they undergo a particular form of quiescence and metabolic slowdown brumation. It is a process similar ...

The Burtele Foot was a new species of australopithecine, an ancient "relative" of Lucy: what the discovery reveals

The Burtele Foot was a new species of australopithecine, an ancient “relative” of Lucy: what the discovery reveals

On the site of Woranso-Millein Ethiopiagods came to light fossil remains associated with some kind of Australopithecus. The Ethiopian researcher who studied them, the paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassiehe immediately realized that these bones, or part of a foot (known as Burtele’s foot), some teethand one jaw infantile, presented characteristics different from those of Australopithecus afarensisthe species to which the famous one ...

Do you become an adult at 32? The new study on the 5 phases of brain development

Do you become an adult at 32? The new study on the 5 phases of brain development

A new study conducted by Columbia University, published in the well-known journal Nature Communicationsoffers a fascinating new perspective on one of the most complex events in human neurobiology: the brain development throughout life. Analyzing the brains of 3,802 people from 0 to 90 yearsresearchers found that the brain topology, that is, the way in which they are organised neuronal connectionsvaries ...